14 February, 2017

DSA wants Democratic Socialism in the US, sees membership spike

Maria
Svart of DSA says the US can have a democratic socialist future, but
only if we build a movement to challenge both capitalism and racism.

While
the US has lost its chance at having arguably its first ever
progressive president, Bernie Sanders, one group wants to capitalize
on his political revolution and even nourish and support more people
like him to infiltrate the Democratic party and fix the Democratic
party.

Democratic
Socialists of America has seen its membership double over the past
few months in part because of Sanders’ reintroduction of socialism
into the public eye and also as a reaction to the far-right takeover
of the White House with the victory of Donald Trump.

Maria
Svart, the national director of DSA, speaks to teleSUR about how her
organization is using Sanders’ vision to fight Trump and
neoliberalism within the Democratic party while aligning with other
social and grassroots movements such as the Black Lives Matter,
Women’s March and the Native American water protectors in order to
ultimately achieve a social democratic United States.